My name is Ajit Dalit, I live in Raurkela in India. I leave here, in this block, a message of hope. I have been working in a Captcha Farm for a year, the working conditions are extreme, for most of the day we live like chickens: locked up in one of the hundreds of bunks that fill a shed that I have never seen the end of. The only moments in which we go down, forming long queues on the ladders, or we go to the bathroom or recover some supplements; I haven't eaten food for 65 days when good Devendra left me a bite of chapati.
While we work we cannot lose even a second because we have to certify at least 5400 blocks a day, one every 10 seconds for 15 hours. At the end of working hours and during breaks, the device turns off so we have no free time on the internet. I've been writing this message for two weeks in the few moments I save when I can certify two transactions in 10 seconds. You may wonder why I am staying here ... There is no other job in India that allows me to earn a salary that offers my family the